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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 6, 1995Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 3:43 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KMKE 062006 RRA
SVRMKE
LMZ502-WIC101-WIZ502-062110-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
306 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...RACINE COUNTY

INCLUDING THE ADJOINING WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
 
AT 304 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY
MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST OF RACINE OR 2 MILES
EAST SOUTHEAST OF ROCHESTER MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH.

THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
 KANSASVILLE              BY 311 PM CDT
 UNION GROVE              BY 317 PM CDT
 NORTH CAPE               BY 317 PM CDT
 WAUBEESEE                BY 319 PM CDT
 WIND LAKE                BY 320 PM CDT
 TICHIGAN                 BY 321 PM CDT
 RAYMOND                  BY 323 PM CDT
 KNEELAND                 BY 326 PM CDT
 FRANKSVILLE              BY 330 PM CDT
 CALEDONIA                BY 330 PM CDT
 STURTEVANT               BY 332 PM CDT

THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

HAASE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN.

A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE
STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA
WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS
WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE
STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF
THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.

IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY
DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE
COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.

BROWNING/JDH.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN.

A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE
STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA
WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS
WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE
STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF
THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.

IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY
DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE
COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.

BROWNING/JDH.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXWalworth49 min
Jun 6, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac58 min
Jun 6, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Jefferson41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.